This dissertation sets out to test the hypothesis that Egyptian and Hellenistic connections
to Jewish beliefs about the functioning of angels facilitated the reception of Christianity.
The method of investigation involved ...

Each language has some means or system of referring to participants. This system of reference includes a participant’s initial introduction, continuing reference to the participant, as well as reintroduction after some ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A survey of the research on the Biblical Hebrew psalms of lamentation reveals a lack
of attention paid to the divine images found in these poems. Previous studies, for the
most part, focused on literary ...

Since time immemorial and throughout the centuries up to the present, the struggle between Good
and Evil has played a cardinal role in the “cultural web” of mankind. In the various religions, this
dimension of life is ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study of the Peshitta version of Proverbs started as research into the text-critical value of the Peshitta. By utilising the translation technique an attempt was also made to determine on which ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Final sentences are a neglected area of research in Biblical Hebrew. Apart from an
investigation by Mitchell (1879) in the previous century, and a more recent article by
Muraoka (1997), this is certainly ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY: A standard can be defined as a long shaft with a sign or emblem attached to the top which
may be held or which may stand on the ground. Standards are represented in Mesopotamian
art from the emergence ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the information structure of Biblical Hebrew
narrative, and develop accounts of topic and focus in Biblical Hebrew, respectively. Both
topic and focus categories have been ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is an investigation into the grammatically polysemous word כי in the Hebrew Bible. Despite much ink spilt on the description of this little word, many questions remain to be fully explored. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study seeks to identify and classify idioms in the Hebrew Bible. Based on a survey
of literature on idioms in general, and in Biblical Hebrew in particular, the necessary
conditions for idiomaticity ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Iraqi State Department of Antiquities and the Polish expedition
under the late Janusz Meuszynski and Richard Sobolewski, assisted
later by Samuel Paley (Buffalo), set themselves the goal to ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Interest in the exploration of classical texts through the use of modern theoretical frameworks is on the rise, but they are not yet mainstream. The complexity of a quotation rich text such as the Confessions ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Politics, in modern society, has become intimately associated with poor governance, fraud and
corruption, social decay, abuse of power, indifference to the plight of the poor, squandering of
critical ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Ancient philosophers employed the topos of ideal kingship as a way to think about monarchy
and the superior person who could ascend to this office. Following those modern scholars who have used topoi ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The figure of Woman Wisdom appears in several key poems in Sirach, namely Sir
1:1-10,1:11-30,4:11-19,6:18-37,14:20-15:10,24:1-34 and 51:13-30. Woman
Wisdom is a metaphor that employs feminine imagery ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Though Biblical Hebrew (=BH) is no longer a spoken language, students continue to learn it for the
purpose of reading, or at least interacting at a deeper level, with the text of the Hebrew Bible. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The present work consists of an investigation into the form and function(s) of the so-called
'Left Dislocation' construction in Biblical Hebrew. As such, this inquiry is part of a larger
domain of ...